Genres at a Glance
Literary Terms
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Informational Text
Figurative Language
100
Stories that are passed down from one group to another in history. This includes folktales, legends, fables, fairy tales, and myths from different cultures.
What is Traditional Literature?
100
A story that is either fiction or non-fiction.
What is Narrative
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is Plot?
100
Compare and contrast, problem/solution, cause and effect, and sequence are ways to organize informational text.
What is Text Structure?
100
Sayings that are used in the English language, but they are not taken literally.
What are Idioms?
200
A story including elements that are impossible such as talking animals or magical powers.
What is Fantasy?
200
Creating and developing a character.
What is direct and indirect characterization?
200
The contradiction between what happens and what is expected. A twist in the story!
What is Irony?
200
Pictures, graphs, and type style, are some of the things used to draw the reader's attention to informational texts.
What are Text Elements?
200
Sayings that are used in the English language to make something sound better. For example, "The man passed away on Tuesday."
What is a Euphemism?
300
A fictional story that takes place in a particular time period in the past. Often the setting is real, but the characters are made up from the author's imagination.
What is Historical Fiction?
300
The author uses clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
300
The author uses the five senses in order to draw a picture in the reader's mind.
What is Imagery?
300
The use of the word elderly in "The elderly statesman," is an example of a word's....
What is connotation?
300
A subject is spoken or written as though it is something else. For example, "Ian is a rock to his family."
What is a Metaphor?
400
Texts that provide facts about a variety of topics.The author uses text structures and text elements in order to present the information.
What is Informational Text?
400
A scene in a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past.
What is Flashback?
400
The story is told through the eyes of one of the characters in the story.
What is Limited Omniscient (third-person point of view)
400
These techniques are used to persuade. They do so by providing misinformation or by omitting information.
What are Propaganda Techniques?
400
An example of this type of figurative language is, "The sun peeked over the mountain top."
What is Personification?
500
The story of a real person's life that is written by that person.
What is an Autobiograph?
500
The life lesson or the moral of the story.
What is Theme
500
A reference to a well known person, place or thing.
What is Allusion?
500
An unfair preference or dislike for someone or something, which is reflected in the author's writing.
What is Author's Bias?
500
This type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
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